Notes & Asides

Dear Mr. Buckley:

I embrace you, fellow American, in the name of Apple Pie, General Patton, and all else that is near and dear to the hearts of true Americans everywhere—and there’s good reason to believe that they are everywhere, albeit uninvited, unwelcome, etc. etc. but there nonetheless, and let us be perfectly clear on this point, we are with them as they are with us. Together, United, Indivisible, gathered oops for In Spirit All beneath that mumble intercontinental wonder of a flag . . .